If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage. ↗
Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment. ↗
When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave. ↗